Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Youth: 459 Films to Buy & Rent
An Education (2009)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina…
- An assured and alluring coming–of–age drama set in swinging sixties London (1961 in fact), with teenage ingenue Carey Mulligan falling in…
Cherrybomb (2009)
- Dir. Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Feat. Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt…
- Rupert Grint plays against type in this edgy youth drama in which three teenagers go on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop–lifting and…
Dare (2009)
- Dir. Adam Salky
Feat. Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Alan Cumming…
- A drama centered around three high school seniors – an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner – who become engaged in an…
Fish Tank (2009)
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing…
- Full of colourful profanity and hefty doses of working–class belligerence, this assured drama centres around a 15–year–old…
Go Girls (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Anna Hutchison, Bronwyn Turei, Alix Bushnell…
- A North Shore equivalent of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE perhaps, but with considerably less bite, this follows four middle–class 20–somethings as…
Greatest, The (2009)
- Dir. Shana Feste
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan…
- Emotive drama of a family trying to cope with the sudden death of their teenage son and the troubled young woman who enters their life.
I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) (2009)
- Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément…
- An angst ridden teen grapples with growing up gay and his neurotic, overbearing mother in this feisty first feature from young French Canadian…
Misfits (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Robert Sheehan, Antonia Thomas, Lauren Socha…
- "SKINS meets HEROES" is the catch–cry for this Bafta Award winning, streetwise drama about five teenagers stuck in community service, where…
My Suicide (2009)
- Dir. David Lee Miller
Feat. Gabriel Sunday, David Carradine, Mariel Hemingway…
- A disaffected teenager announces that he intends to document his impending suicide on camera in this heavy handed, if potent youth indie.
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Precious (Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire) (2009)
- Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique , Paula Patton…
- Heated ghetto drama puts a hopeful spin on the despair suffered by an illiterate, overweight teenager who prepares to give birth to her second child…